Check out our exclusive #Rentrak Top 10 Domestic Estimates chart! The domestic box office continues to show impressive consistency as we head into October, with the marketplace generating an estimated $99 million this weekend, up 14.8% from the comparable weekend last year and down 21% from last weekend. Just shy of another $100 million weekend, 2026 remains at 27 $100 million-plus weekends out of the first 40, meaning 67.5% of all weekends this year have reached that mark. @AmazonMGMStudio #Verity opened at number one with an estimated $32.6 million from 3,510 theaters in North America. That marks the second-best opening for a Colleen Hoover adaptation, behind only It Ends With Us ($50 million). The 2026 domestic box office now stands at an estimated $7.949 billion through Sunday, up 19.5% from the comparable point in 2025, when the marketplace stood at $6.654 billion. That leaves the industry only $50.757 million shy of the $8 billion mark. At the current pace, the domestic box office is still estimated to cross $8 billion around October 9, although the exact timing could move by a day or two depending on weekday grosses. September certainly did its part, generating $601.9 million, up 1.3% from September 2025 and ranking as the seventh highest-grossing September on record. For a month that has often been viewed as something of a transitional period on the theatrical calendar, that is another strong indication of the depth and durability of the 2026 marketplace. And Anne Hathaway continues to cement her status as one of 2026’s true box office superstars. Verity marks her fifth theatrical release of the year, and her four films released before this weekend have generated nearly $900 million domestically and more than $2.55 billion worldwide. With The Odyssey at $620.464 million domestic and The Devil Wears Prada 2 at $220.6 million, this has become an extraordinary, career-defining box office year for Hathaway. @RentrakMoviesUS @RentrakGlobal #BoxOffice #Rentrak #Movies #Verity #AnneHathaway

🚨 BREAKING BOX OFFICE NEWS 🚨 Drawing on Rentrak’s 50-year box-office legacy, I was just looking at the numbers—and I honestly didn’t see this coming until I added them up just an hour ago. According to our exclusive #Rentrak data, the domestic box office generated $981,431,365 from August 1 through Thursday, August 20. Add the final studio-estimated $129,925,424 for the August 21–23 weekend, and August 2026 has already reached: 🎬 𝗔𝗡 𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 $𝟭.𝟭𝟭𝟭 𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 🎬 That makes August 2026 only the third billion-dollar August in 43 years of month-by-month Rentrak data, covering 1984 through 2026—and it is already the highest-grossing August in the history of that dataset. The only other two: 🍿 2014: $1.017 billion for the full month, powered by Guardians of the Galaxy 🔥 2016: $1.020 billion for the full month, powered by Suicide Squad 🚀 2026: $1.111 BILLION through Sunday, August 23—with eight days still remaining! And two movies have contributed an incredible share of this year’s record: 🕷️ #SpiderMan: Brand New Day generated approximately $685.1 million during August through Sunday—61.6% of the entire month. ⚔️ #TheOdyssey added approximately $180.4 million during August—another 16.2%. Together, #SpiderMan: Brand New Day and The Odyssey have contributed approximately $865.4 million—or 77.9% of the biggest August in 43 years of month-by-month Rentrak data. Yes, you read that correctly: 2014 and 2016 are full-month totals. August 2026 has already surpassed both of them with more than a week left to go. And there’s something beautifully appropriate about all those ones. With a nod to Three Dog Night, ONE ☝️ is definitely NOT the loneliest number at the August box office. Of course, let’s credit the man who wrote “One”: Harry Nilsson, one of my all-time favorite artists. John Lennon famously said, “Nilsson’s my favorite group.” Aimee Mann later did a really cool version of “One,” which opens Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. Music, movies and $1.111 BILLION at the domestic box office. It all comes together. 🎵🎬🔥 I’ve always said: “The month doesn’t define the movies. The movies define the month.” August 2026 just proved it. What an incredible summer. The movies have thrown out the traditional playbook, broken the calendar rules and delivered a milestone I didn’t see coming until I looked at the numbers tonight. @RentrakMoviesUS @RentrakGlobal @SpiderManMovie @odysseymovie #BoxOffice #AugustBoxOffice #SummerMovies #Movies

The domestic box office has crossed $7 billion for 2026, running 20.4% ahead of last year, while summer has reached $4.446 billion—enough to rank No. 4 when measured against completed summer totals. For me, this may be the most important summer movie season since 1975, when Jaws took a huge bite out of the box office and set the modern summer season in motion. The numbers—and a certain photo of a 14-year-old movie fan—tell the story. 🎬 Full analysis and charts in the reply. 👇 #BoxOffice #SummerMovies #Jaws #MovieTheaters

Breaking! Comscore (with name change to Rentrak set for June 12) reports @A24's #Backrooms delivered one of the biggest horror openings of all time and made history! At just 20 years old, #KaneParsons became the youngest director to helm a #1 film globally, grossing $81.4 million in North America and $118 million worldwide this weekend, shattering the record for the largest opening weekend ever for a first-time director with an original film. #AtomicMonster @blumhouse @jason_blum

#MemorialDay weekend is off to a great start as @starwars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” @themandalorian earns $12M in Thursday previews. The film officially opens in the US and Canada today in 4,300 theatres, including 425 IMAX auditoriums, 1,100 Premium Large Format screens, 2,400+ 3D locations, 400 D-Box/4D motion screens, and 135 ScreenX locations. Last year's Memorial weekend was the biggest ever with the combination of “Lilo & Stitch” and “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” powering the best ever tally at a whopping $330M domestically.  Check out our Exclusive @Comscore @csMoviesUS @CSGlobalMovies chart of the Top Memorial Day weekends. @Disney @Lucasfilm

A great week at CinemaCon has wrapped! Honored to appear live on-air and represent @Comscore @csMoviesUS @CSGlobalMovies on @BBCWorld @BBCBusiness earlier this week with the great @SallyBundockBBC to discuss the exciting news direct from Caesars Palace Las Vegas! @cinema_united #CinemaCon

As the @supermariomovie #SuperMarioGalaxy gets off to a huge start, this article by @jakecoyleAP for @AP is right on the money! “The kids that are going to the movies today are going to take their kids tomorrow,” “As long as people keep making kids, the future of the movie theater experience is assured.” Terrific reporting (featuring a cool chart with our exclusive @Comscore Movies data) on the importance of GenZ and family moviegoing to the health of the theatrical business and for the studios who have gone all-in on family-friendly fare. With great insights from @UniversalPics' Jim Orr and @cinema_united's Michael O'Leary’! The PG surge comes several years after most family movies detoured to streaming during the pandemic, a shift that some, at the time, feared would become permanent. “The family film has literally come back from near-extinction,” says Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends for @csMoviesUS @CSGlobalMovies “The one genre that really took a major hit with the pandemic was the family film.” Dergarabedian has taken to calling PG the new PG-13. If slightly adult-leaning movies once occupied the center of the multiplex, that territory now belongs to the PG movie. apnews.com/article/family-mo…

A special @CSGlobalMovies @Comscore @csMoviesUS Spotlight on the extraordinary Global performance of @AmazonMGMStudio's #ProjectHailMary .... Topping the global, international and domestic charts this weekend is Amazon MGM Studio’s much-anticipated, well-reviewed @projecthailmary that continues to soar as the #1 film worldwide - grossing a stellar $108.6M globally in its second frame. The worldwide cume now stands at $300.8M! The hit film has enjoyed superb holds at the international box office. The weekend estimate is $54.1M from 86 markets, and the holdover drop was just -5%. The international cume now stands at $136.5M. The movie was #1 in 60+ markets including China, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, and Japan. The 5% holdover drop from opening weekend is exceptional. This performance compares very favorably to similar titles, including Interstellar (-21%), The Martian (-41%), Gladiator 2 (-42%), Superman (-45%), and Dune (-48%). The movie was #1 in 60+ markets including China, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, and Japan. @philiplord @chrizmillr @RyanGosling